UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

and

UCLA Department of Women’s Studies



PRESENT



A Symposium on

Women in Conflict Zones



April 10, 2009

Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA

9am to 7:30pm



The Women in Conflict Zones Symposium, a Working Group component of  
the UCLA Global South Gender Initiative, will feature a keynote/public  
lecture by Shahrzad Mojab of the University of Toronto, followed  
during the day by a panel and a workshop designed to explore various  
conflict zones (e.g., Palestine, Iran (Kurds), Algeria, Sudan, Mexico,  
Lebanon, Cuba, Eritrea, Tunisia, Philippines, Rwanda/Congo, South  
Africa, and the United States where individuals may be actors,  
warriors, victims, pawns, perpetrators, survivors, collaborators,  
icons or symbols and may be ambivalent, complicit, and have  
complicated relationships to their adversaries.  In these areas women  
may also be mediators, peacemakers, justice-seekers, and human rights  
advocates. Symposium participants will explore these and other  
similarly urgent contemporary developments shaped by the intersections  
of gender, conflict, and militarism. The themes explore the nature and  
rationales for violence, militarization and masculinity, the politics  
of memory and naming, trauma and healing, and forms of reconciliation.

Participants include Dina Al-Kassim (UC Irvine), Azza Basarudin  
(UCLA), Lara Deeb (Scripps College), Sondra Hale (UCLA), Caren Kaplan  
(UC Davis), Jennifer Terry (UC Irvine), and Juliet Williams (UCLA),  
and other faculty and graduate students, primarily from UCLA, who will  
participate in a workshop on “Women in Conflict Zones and Human Rights  
Questions—Theories, Cases, Practices, and Archival Activism” (Beyene,  
Blackwell, Finch, Khedher, Santos, and Sharif).



Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA  
Center for the Study of Women, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies,  
and the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA



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